Waiting Rooms Quotes

• Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Faces

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• I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hate, Chance, Built

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• If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

  Jules Renard

  Space, House, Would Be

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• When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Heart, Giving, Helping

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

  Rick Warren

  Grief, Fishing, People

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Waiter

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Immortality, Robes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

  Jenna Morasca

  Waiting, Rooms, Ominous

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• The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

  Christopher Moore

  Doctors, Boring, Timeless

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.57, Zondervan

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• Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Doing Nothing

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

  Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

  War, Poetry Is, Waiting

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• Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

  Karen Chance

  Hell, Dumped, Waiting

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.51, Penguin

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• She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Years, Wind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

  John C. McGinley

  People, Calm, Terror

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, People, Office

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Thinking, Wish

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• Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

  Simon Hughes

  Doctors, Atmosphere, Strange

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Doctors, Florida, Oklahoma

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• One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Struggle, Ambition

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• I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

  Lorin Stein

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  White, Doctors, Office

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Light, Office

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• I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.

  Candida Hofer

  Zoos, Museums, Years

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